Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year!

Hi everyone! First of all, Happy New Year! I hope you have been enjoying the holiday season.Now for the serious business. Thanks for holding on and sticking around! Really appreciate all the support! There have been detours but we are still committed to seeing this through so as a treat here is that really nice 2008 special! This particular chapter is a joint release with the wonderful folks over at Null so please enjoy! Gokusen 2008 Special1100 height format release: Via MegauploadVia Mediafire1500 height format release: Via MegauploadVia MediafireOr go download the chapter from NULL: NULL Gokusen Project Page.

Then to be upfront with our progress, here is the status of the different chapters:Volume 15 - All chapters have been scanned. Translation is up to chapter 6. Proofreading up to chapter 4. Looking to completely translate the whole volume early January.2009 specials - All chapters scanned. All chapters completely translated. Currently being edited.

I hope you guys can wait just a little bit more. Again, Thanks and all the very best for 2010!

Ohhhhh... Im so happy *o* I almost though that no one is scanlating Gokusen anymore T_T And when proofreading is already up to ch 4 that means ch 3 is ready, right?Im really looking forward to it~~~And, Happy new year~! A bit late but better late than never ^^

I hope everything is alright! A progress report would be awesome guys, but seriously, no pressure - we love you for scanlating gokusen for us and working so hard! Thanks for sticking with the project for so long!

I'm a new reader of yours that has just found your site today (shame on me) & I just wanted to say that I REALLY love and appreciate your hardwork in translating this manga.

It's just so AWESOME!!!

I've been a big fan of Gokusen & Shinkumi for a few years already so am really looking forward to your updates.

again, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACTUALLY READ THE MANGA. I've had to bear with the live-action drama and anime and I was always deprived for Shinkumi so the manga is the only source that will provide me that. XD

Are you guys okay? It's understandable if there is no time to translate what is left of the Gokusen, but it's been a while since we've heard from you. I'm getting very worried that something is wrong. I hope you all are in good health.

hey thanks for translating gokusen thus far. i've been waiting patiently for a hint that the group is still actively scanning the project, but to no avail. does anyone know if/when another release is slated to come out? i'm not trying to be annoying, i promise, but i just want to know that the project isn't dead so i don't have to check on it all the time...

Thanks for bringing us up to speed! I'm so glad to know you're still committed to seeing this through, thank you!!! Wow, that's a lot of progress... must you wait until the whole volume is complete before releasing any of the chapters?? :) Am i being too greedy, hehe :D Thank you soooo much!!!

thanks for responding and updating us on gokusen's status! i'm so glad to know that this awesome project will finally be finished! :) thanks so much for everything you've done to feed fans' addictions! XD

oh come on please.can't you release the rest of it already?it's almost a year that you are dragging on with vol 15.you released 2 chapters, then you took a 5 months pause from it. you released a special and then another pause longer than 6 months (until now).

it's the last volume. come on.wouldn't be better just to put some extra effort and get over with it?

We've been waiting for months now. No releases when we were told il would be. We don't know what's happening with the group (no editors for 5 months??). I think it's natural that some people are beginning to get impatient. Actually i'm surprised there's only one or two comments like this one out of the 50.But well, still hope ther'll be a release one day or another...take care <3

P.S. Maybe even if you just release one chapter for now, guys? I'd be willing to wait another YEAR if you kept dropping us wee surprises along the way a bit at a time as you used to ;)Much love anyway :)

It's true, and didn't they say that translation was done? Even if they're not cleaned up perfectly, crappy scans so we can just read it already would be better than none, and BP can finish the fully cleaned and edited scans and update them on top of the cruddy ones.

Good job on everything you guys have done so far. I really hope Gokusen gets finished because it really is one of my favorite mangas.Have you guys seen the new special chapters after the series ends? I read about it on a forum and I would really love to see those too. I hope you guys get around to that! Otherwise, thanks for everything so far.

of course i'm grateful for the work null and BP did scanlating this manga so far.goes without saying.

it's not a matter of anticipation that i cannot bear.

i enjoyed gokusen so far but i'm not really dying to read the end.

that i can bear.

i'm reading "a song of ice and fire" and if you can bear george martin's eternal delays you can bear almost everything.

it's just that i don't think it's serious get stuck for a year on the last volume of a manga.

i know that scanlators don't owe anything to the readers. but they should actually not fucking with them either.

if the volume is fully translated and you still cannot manage to release it after so much time why don't you publish the translations on mangahelpers so that someone willing may be able to finish the job?

I know saying sorry for the lack of updates won't suffice, but I hope that what I'll say will make you all happy.

As I said, Vol. 15 and the 2009 specials (the epilogue special) are already translated. We're already done typesetting Vol. 15, and they're currently going through QC. After that, we'll start working on the 2009 specials.

Thank you so much for your work! I read the whole of Gokusen 2 months ago and sometimes I get impatient and come here to see what you´re up to and end up disappointed. So today I´m really happy after reading Nagi´s update and I feel like I can wait a little longer.

Thanks for the update! Gokusen is one of my favorite manga, so I'm glad it is still being worked on. It's definitely easier to wait when you pop up from time to time with a quick progress report. Thanks so much for your hard work! I can't wait to see the end!